Three days is our 2-day plan plus Sera Monastery’s afternoon debate and Drepung, both still inside greater Lhasa, no permit beyond the city required. If you want Yamdrok Lake or Ganden worked in, that’s what our Beyond Lhasa itineraries are for. Book these before you go: Tibet Travel Permit: 20-30 days lead time through your agency, non-negotiable Barkhor-area or new-city hotel : the...

The 6 Attractions Destination Pass covering all five Mandai wildlife parks plus one indoor attraction looks like a bargain and gets sold that way. Skip trying to cram it all into a single visit. Pick Night Safari or River Wonders, go properly, and use the day you save on the rest of the city instead. Rushed wildlife parks are worse than skipped ones. Need less time? Drop back to 4 days ; got more,...

Four days is enough to hit the icon sights, the old quarters, and Sentosa without rushing. The one call worth making early: skip a second afternoon at Orchard Road’s malls in favour of the Botanic Gardens. Malls look the same everywhere. A UNESCO-listed rainforest garden in the middle of a city doesn’t. Only got two or three days? Drop back to the 2-day or 3-day version; got more, add...

Three days is our 2-day plan plus a genuine hot spring half day and one of the great museum collections in Asia, still entirely inside Taipei City. If Jiufen or the north coast is what you’re actually after, that’s what our Taipei and Taiwan itinerary is built for. Book these before you go: Your Taipei hotel : rates jump fastest in the Oct-Nov peak window Taipei 101 observatory ticket...

Three days is the version of this trip where you have to choose between Sentosa and the Botanic Gardens, and the Botanic Gardens should win. It’s UNESCO-listed, free to enter, and a fifteen-minute MRT ride from Orchard Road, which is more than Universal Studios can say for its SGD 83-86 ticket. Add a day at a time with the 2-day or 4-day versions if this spine needs adjusting either way.

Geneva is the most expensive city in Switzerland, which makes it the most expensive city most people visiting this trip will see, so this plan gets you out of it for two of the three days. It builds on the 2 day version by adding a full day at Mont Blanc; go further with the 4 day itinerary . Staying in the city the whole time instead? See the Geneva 3 day itinerary .

Two days in Lhasa is one rest day and one full day, so this covers exactly two things: the Potala Palace and the Jokhang-Barkhor circuit. No monasteries, no day trips out of the city. If that sounds thin, our 3-day and 7-day versions add the rest of the in-city list without changing this spine. Book these before you go: Tibet Travel Permit: your agency needs 20-30 days lead time, this has to...

Here’s the call nobody wants to make: two days isn’t enough for both the icon sights and Sentosa Island. Sentosa eats a full day on its own and delivers a generic theme park, not something distinctly Singaporean. Skip it. Add a day at a time with the 3-day through 7-day versions of this same itinerary, or see the full Singapore guide for the complete list this spine is built from.

Two days is enough for the actual core of Taipei: one skyline, one temple, two night markets, and the city’s real signature dish, without stretching to Jiufen or the north coast. If you’ve got more time, our 3-day and 4-day itineraries build directly on this one. Book these before you go: Your Taipei hotel : rates jump fastest in the Oct-Nov peak window Taipei 101 observatory ticket :...

Seven days in Stockholm is more time than most guides know what to do with, so they pad it with a day trip to Uppsala and call it earned. I’d argue the opposite: a full week is enough to go deep on the city itself without ever leaving it, and if you’d rather spend a day or two on Uppsala, Sigtuna, or Vaxholm, that trip is the Sweden-wide seven-day itinerary , not this one.

Land at Changi and the MRT gets you into the city for about SGD 1.50-2.20 tapped through SimplyGo, no ticket machine queue required, in roughly 35 minutes to City Hall. Seven days is enough to use that head start properly: this plan treats Singapore as a hub, not just a city, three days of hawker centres and neighbourhoods, two border crossings into Malaysia and Indonesia, a bumboat day out to...

Six days: this is where Beijing finally makes sense Everything up to five days on this site keeps you within a couple of hours of Shanghai. Six days is the shortest length where a proper Beijing add-on stops being a bad idea, because the fastest G-trains cover Shanghai Hongqiao to Beijing South in about 4 hours 18 minutes and the Forbidden City and Great Wall genuinely want two full days once you...

Here’s the honest version: Geneva’s city core is compact enough to see properly in a single day, so with two days total, spend the first one on the lake towns outside the city and save Geneva for day two, when it’ll feel earned instead of rushed. Doing the full week instead? The 7 day version builds on this same spine. Staying in the city the whole time? See the Geneva 2 day...

Seven days is our 6-day plan plus a genuine rest day before you fly home, not a seventh day of casino-hopping at full intensity. A full week on the Strip alone will wear you down; if the extra days are really for the Grand Canyon or a Southwest road trip, our Las Vegas USA itinerary is the version built for that. Book these before you go: Your Strip hotel : check the resort-fee line before...

Pena Palace draws thousands of visitors a day in peak season, and the walk-up queue between 11am and 3pm can run two to three hours, so the single most useful thing in this whole itinerary is booking a morning entry slot before you book anything else. A full week based in Lisbon gives you room for the city plus four genuinely different day trips and a beach day, without the...

Seven days in Geneva alone, no day trips out, lets you do all nine city essentials at a genuinely unrushed pace instead of cramming them into a long weekend. It’s the 6 day itinerary plus a real last day. If you’d rather split the week between the city and the Alps or lake towns, see 7 Days in Geneva and Beyond . Book These Before You Go A central hotel, check rates on Booking.

Five days: the last version before Beijing becomes worth it This is the four-day itinerary plus one flex day, and it’s genuinely the last length where a same-trip Beijing or Xi’an add-on doesn’t make sense; both want two nights on the ground once you get there, and five days total doesn’t leave room. Once you’re planning six or seven days, switch to those versions...

There is no train that runs directly between Sintra and Cascais, and this trips up more people planning a Lisbon trip than anything else on this list. Rossio station only serves the Sintra line. Cascais and Estoril trains leave from Cais do Sodre, a completely different station on the other side of the city. This itinerary gives each escape its own day rather than forcing a connection that...

Seven days is the full version of this trip: a real mountain sunrise, an Everest flight, two proper days in Pokhara, and two proper days in Chitwan, without cramming any of them into an afternoon. It is still not a trek. If Everest Base Camp or Annapurna Base Camp is the actual goal, treat this as the prep template and budget another twelve to nineteen-plus days on top of it for the trek itself;...

Six days in Geneva itself, no day trips out, is the one length where you can stop choosing between CERN and the UN and just do both. This builds on the 5 day itinerary and adds a second booked morning plus a proper free afternoon. Want the full week? See the 7 day itinerary . If you’d rather spend some of these days on the Alps or the lake towns, that’s 6 Days in Geneva and Beyond .

Most five-day Lisbon plans spend four days wandering the same three neighbourhoods and call the fifth a “day trip” almost as an afterthought. Flip that. Lisbon is a genuinely excellent base, not just a city, and this version spends one focused day on the city itself, then four days fanning out to Sintra, Cascais, Setubal and Obidos, four completely different versions of Portugal within...

Four days: land, ride out twice, then get the history that Shanghai’s skyline hides This builds on the three-day version and adds one thing that trip didn’t have room for: a day dedicated to the deeper Chinese history Shanghai actually holds, once you stop looking at the Pudong skyline and start looking in its museums. If you want the Bund-and-laneways checklist instead, that’s...

Six days is our 5-day plan plus a sixth day for nightlife or its quieter alternative, still entirely inside the Strip-and-Downtown footprint. If you’d rather spend that extra day on the Grand Canyon West Rim or Red Rock Canyon, our Las Vegas Nevada and Las Vegas USA itineraries cover those trips properly. Book these before you go: Your Strip hotel : check the resort-fee line before...

A lot of itineraries send you to Sintra and Cascais in one afternoon by train, and it does not work the way they describe. Rossio station handles the Sintra line and Cais do Sodre handles the Cascais line, and there’s no track connecting the two, so you can’t ride to Sintra and simply change trains onward to the coast. This version gives each its own day. For the city on its own,...

Five days is more than Geneva’s city core strictly needs, so this one spends the extra time on real depth, museums, a proper market, a free garden, rather than inventing filler. It builds on the 4 day itinerary ; go one step further with the 6 day version. Want the Alps and lake towns in the mix? See 5 Days in Geneva and Beyond . Book These Before You Go A central hotel, check rates on...

Stockholm sits across 14 islands connected by 57 bridges, and the most useful thing to understand before you arrive is that this geography is not a complication but the point. Water is everywhere, and the city uses it as an extension of its public spaces in a way that most European capitals cannot manage. Six days gives you time to move beyond Gamla Stan and into the islands, districts, and design...

Six days is where you have to make an actual trade-off, not pretend you can do everything: Pokhara and Chitwan both matter, but six days isn’t enough to give both of them the two full days they deserve. This version gives Pokhara one solid day and Chitwan two, since a jungle safari without a dawn or dusk activity barely counts as a safari at all. Day Focus 1 Arrival, visa 2 Nagarkot...

A lot of three-day itineraries try to cram Sintra and Cascais into the same afternoon. It doesn’t work, they’re two separate train lines from two separate stations, and mixing them up costs you an hour standing at the wrong platform. This version gives Sintra its own full day and a real choice for the third. For the city alone, without any of this, see our Lisbon guide ; for more...

Four days is the 3 day itinerary plus a genuine watches-and-lakefront day, no filler added just to hit a number. If you’ve got even more time, the 6 day version keeps the same spine going. Chasing the Alps or the lake towns instead? That’s 4 Days in Geneva and Beyond . Book These Before You Go A central hotel, check rates on Booking.com , Geneva sells out during conference weeks....

Three days: one to land, two to leave the city entirely This is not the version that tries to squeeze the Bund, Yu Garden, and Tianzifang into three days, that’s the in-city guide’s job . This is the version that treats Shanghai as a base camp: one day to get your bearings and sort the practical stuff, then two full days riding out to two of the best short train trips in the country.

Two days is not enough to do Lisbon properly, so don’t try. Spend one day getting a real, unrushed taste of the city, then spend the second day out of it entirely. Portugal outside Lisbon is the actual reason this trip is worth taking. For the city done properly over more days, see our Lisbon guide ; for a longer version of this day-trip approach, our 3-day and 5-day itineraries add more...

Five days is the first version of this trip with room to breathe: a real mountain sunrise, an Everest flight with a genuine weather buffer, and two full days in Pokhara instead of one rushed sampler. Cramming Pokhara into a single afternoon, which shorter versions of this trip have to do, wastes the actual reason to go there. Day Focus 1 Visa, Nagarkot transfer 2 Nagarkot sunrise, return 3 Everest...

Five days is our 4-day plan plus a fifth day spent slower: real Vegas history, an off-Strip casino, and a rest afternoon. If you’d rather spend day five in the desert instead, Red Rock Canyon and Hoover Dam sit in our Las Vegas Nevada itinerary , not this one. Book these before you go: Your Strip hotel : check the resort-fee line before confirming Sphere tickets : weekday evening slots go...

Three days lets you do Geneva’s core properly and add a real neighborhood day instead of rushing the fountain photo and leaving. It’s the 2 day itinerary plus a full day in Paquis. Longer trip? The 5 day version keeps building on this. Want the Alps and lake towns instead of more city? See 3 Days in Geneva and Beyond . Book These Before You Go A central hotel, check rates on Booking.

A week is where Lisbon stops feeling like a checklist. This route is the same core spine as the shorter trips, Baixa, Alfama, Belem, LX Factory, extended across a full seven days entirely inside the city, no Sintra, Cascais or Setubal squeezed in. For the version built around those day trips, our Lisbon and Beyond 7-day itinerary covers all four. Book these before you go: A Baixa or Chiado hotel :...

Two days isn’t a Shanghai trip. Use it as a gateway, not a checklist. Most two-day guides try to cram the Bund, Yu Garden, and the French Concession into 48 hours and call it done. If that’s what you want, the full city guide covers it properly; go read that instead. This version assumes you already know Shanghai is a stopover, and spends day two doing something most short-trip advice...

Six days is enough to stop rushing entirely and stay inside the city the whole time, no Sintra or Cascais or Setubal squeezed into the schedule. For the version built around those day trips, see our Lisbon and Beyond 6-day itinerary instead. Book these before you go: A Baixa or Chiado hotel : central for six days of walking Belem Tower and Jeronimos Monastery tickets : book weeks ahead Oct-Mar Sao...

Two days is plenty for Geneva’s actual core: the lake, the Old Town, one CERN-or-UN booking, and Carouge. This is the tight version; if you’ve got more time, the 3 day and 7 day versions build on the same spine. Want the Alps and lake towns too? That’s a different trip: 2 Days in Geneva and Beyond . Book These Before You Go A central hotel: Geneva sells out fast during UN...

Four days is where this itinerary stops being purely a Kathmandu trip and starts being a Nepal trip, which is the point. Anyone still trying to wedge all three Durbar Squares into four days is planning the wrong trip; this version gets you legal, gets you a mountain sunrise, and gets you to the actual Annapurna gateway before you fly home. Day Focus 1 Visa, Nagarkot transfer 2 Nagarkot sunrise,...

Seven days runs the same spine as 6 days through Grand Canyon West, Death Valley, Zion and Bryce, then keeps going instead of turning back: Page, Arizona for Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, the full Utah-Arizona loop. If a week feels like too much driving, the 6-day version ends at Bryce instead. Book these before you go: Compare rental cars on Discover Cars Grand Canyon West Skywalk tickets...

Five days gets you the whole city core with room to breathe, and this route stays inside Lisbon proper for all five, no Sintra or Cascais bolted on. If a day trip is actually the point of your fifth day, our Lisbon and Beyond 5-day itinerary covers Sintra, Cascais, Setubal and Obidos instead. Book these before you go: A Baixa or Chiado hotel : central for the whole trip Belem Tower and Jeronimos...

Four days is our 3-day plan plus a fourth day for AREA15 and a real dayclub afternoon, still entirely inside the Strip-and-Downtown footprint. If a desert day trip is the reason you’re adding a fourth day, our Las Vegas Nevada itinerary covers Red Rock Canyon and Hoover Dam instead. Book these before you go: Your Strip hotel : check the resort-fee line before confirming Sphere tickets :...

A week in Shanghai means you can afford to do this city properly Seven days is enough to stop rushing. You can do the Bund at dawn one day and at night another, take two separate rail trips out to nearby cities, and still have a lazy morning or two. Here’s how I’d carve it up. Book these before you go: A base near People’s Square or the French Concession - check rates on Agoda ;...

Four days is enough for Lisbon to make sense without sprinting between landmarks. This route stays entirely inside the city, no Sintra bolt-on eating into a day you should be spending in Alfama; for the day trips, see our Lisbon and Beyond 4-day itinerary instead, or extend this one with our 5-day plan. Book these before you go: A Baixa or Chiado hotel : central for all four days Belem Tower and...

Stockholm Travel Itinerary (5 Days) Five days is where you stop treating Stockholm as a checklist and start treating it as a city, and this plan stays inside it deliberately, building on the four-day version rather than sending you out to Uppsala or the deeper archipelago (that trip lives in the Sweden-wide itinerary instead). The Arlanda Express covers the 40 kilometers between the airport and...

Three days is enough to actually do this properly: get the paperwork sorted, get a real Himalaya sunrise, and get an Everest view without ever putting on a trekking boot. It is not enough to also do the valley’s monuments justice, so stop trying to bolt Durbar Square onto the itinerary as a footnote and just commit to what three days can genuinely deliver. Day Focus 1 Visa, Nagarkot transfer...

Six days runs the same spine as the 5-day version (Vegas, Grand Canyon West, Death Valley, Zion) but gives Bryce its own overnight instead of a same-day return, so neither park feels rushed. Push on to Page and the South Rim with 7 days if you’ve got one more day to spend. Book these before you go: Compare rental cars on Discover Cars Grand Canyon West Skywalk tickets on GetYourGuide Death...

Tram 28 is Lisbon’s most photographed ride and its most reliable pickpocket trap, organized teams work the crowded carriages specifically because tourists are busy filming the view instead of watching their pockets. This plan stays inside the city for all three days; if you want a Sintra day added on, jump to our 4-day itinerary or the day-trip-focused Lisbon and Beyond version instead. Book...

Six days is the version where you stop rushing and start noticing Shanghai is the only city on Earth where a 1920s Art Deco skyline stands directly across the water from a forest of supertall towers built in the last 30 years, and neither side looks temporary. Six days lets you do the essentials properly, add both a museum day and a rail day trip, and still have room for a slow morning.

Five days keeps the same spine (Vegas, Grand Canyon West, Death Valley) but fixes the 4-day version’s rushed Zion day: an actual overnight in Springdale, then Bryce Canyon added on the way out. For the crammed single-day Zion version, see 4 days ; to keep going into Page and the South Rim, jump to 7 days . Book these before you go: Compare rental cars on Discover Cars Grand Canyon West...